The European Union has long been seen as a distinctive or sui generis actor in international politics, epitomised by the notions of civilian or normative power, or more recently by the “Comprehensive Approach”. However, ...

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The world is growing increasingly complex and is characterised by ever increasing interdependence. This is the argument Grevi holds to assess the evolving structure of the international system in order to ...

The European Union (EU) has declared its European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) operational. It has put the institutional structures in place to manage the political aspects of security and defence policy and the ...

This article contributes to debates on the proliferation of bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), by analysing novel empirical material: the EU-India FTA negotiations, which have attracted little academic scrutiny. By ...

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Scholars have regularly presented the EU as a ‘normative power’ that
promotes human rights as a legitimate standard of international behaviour. Yet, the
legitimacy of EU normative power within enlargement has ...

Reliable estimates of feedstock resources are a prerequisite to the establishment of a biomass based-industry for energy and non food products. Field trials in the European Union (EU) show that Miscanthus spp. can produce ...

The Europlanet Research Infrastructure consortium funded under FP7 aims to provide the EU Planetary Science community greater access for to research infrastructure. A series of networking and outreach initiatives will be ...

A proposal entitled Europlanet Research Infrastructure (RI) has been submitted to the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). This aims to “consolidate the integration of the planetary science community (which started with ...

'Euskalduna Shipyards' was a context specific intervention into the open public space in the banks of Bilbao's Nervion River, developed across a research residency awarded and supported by BilbaoEszena (Bilbao, Spain), and ...